Forming An Effective Diverse Team/Group

Developing High Performance Teams and Leading people with diverse experiences towards a common goal can be challenging. Learning the stages and phases of team building requires everyone's cooperation to deliver both short and long- term project goals. 

Workforce Diversity -Workforces with both local and global characteristics can be difficult to unify towards a common goal. Understanding and working through our similarities and differences is an important step towards world class leadership.

This video shows several methods and techniques which have enabled many organizations around the globe to form effective diverse teams/groups.

                                               
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• First, when forming a group or team creates a comfortable rapport for your members.  Try to get to know your teammates.  Understand the context of people culture i.e. are they form high context culture or from low context culture.

• Allow members to ask different questions and be ready to answer them. Accept and respect cultural differences and side by form a mutual commonality among the team members. Do not judge them by their looks, religion, culture, and etc.

• When creating or setting up goals and objectives make sure that they attainable and realistic. Do not overwhelm your team members with too much information at once.  Furthermore let members to naturally offer their talents, i.e. do not force them to do something, instead work on their pace and let them familiarize themselves with corporate environment and team members.

• Always make sure that favouritism does not exist. If any problem arises try to provide reasonable accommodation. Team leaders must also strive to build cohesiveness among the team members. In addition to this leaders must have the ability and should provide other team members to focus on critical thinking.

• One of the most important steps is that continuous feedback should be taken from the members to ensure everyone is on the right path and always recognise members work above and beyond.